Meaning

4 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)A light of dazzling brilliancy.

    Blendlicht

    искря́щийся светiskrjáščijsja svet

  2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly.

  3. (collective, countable, uncommon, uncountable)A herd of zebra.

  4. (uncountable)Dazzle camouflage.

More definitions
  • brightness enough to blind partially and temporarily

Examples

58 sentences

  1. Tom dazzled Mary with his smile.

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  2. Tom has a dazzling smile.

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  3. I was dazzled.

    ruЯ был поражён. — Olya

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  4. Tom was dazzled by Mary's good looks.

    ruТом был ослеплён красотой Мэри. — Karok

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  5. She dazzles everybody with her wit.

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Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a very bright light:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a very bright light:

Origin

From daze + -le, a frequentative form.

From daze + -le, a frequentative form.

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Forms

plural: dazzles
Singulardazzle
Pluraldazzles

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
group of zebras:herdB1zeal

Word family

3 related words
Derivedantidazzledazzle paintingmotion dazzle

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
daytimeB2dazeB1dedeacon

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